Adolf Hitler ~ An entire afternoon with him

Today, I spent an entire afternoon researching Adolf Hitler. Why? Because I had watched a documentary about him and curiosity got the best of me.

Result? I exited my research quite horrified, confused, and angry. I had seen things no one should see. Dead people in concentration camps, the deceased bodies of the Goebbel children who were poisoned by their own parents in the bunker in the last days of WWII when the Russians were pounding their way into Berlin.

I even read about Hitler's sister, Paula. http://www.shoah.dk/Paula/Default.htm I read about her breaking into tears during her two interviews, pleading with the interviewer, telling them, "He was my brother!" and denying that Hitler would ever do such a thing that he did.

I thought, "Paula? How in God's name could you not have known? The average German, maybe, but you? You were HIS BLOODY SISTER!!" Sooner or later, sweet-heart, you should've faced the music! This wasn't the darling older bro you grew up with.

I couldn't understand, nor do I think I ever will understand how the Nazis did it, why they did it. What possessed them to think they were better than a whole group of people, so better that they thought themselves gods on Earth and deemed it fit to exterminate said group of people.

What's even more horrifying, I felt was that this was all recent. A mere 65 years or so ago. My GRANDFATHER was a boy when this was happening.

This wasn't in ancient times where people thought the Earth was flat or the sun was a rotating chariot or some inane thing like that. We can attribute anything and everything the ancients did to be that they simply didn't know any better. Well, 65 years ago, humanity DID know better. We did expect ourselves to treat others as equals and the Nazis managed to tear all that down.

I think I'll stick with the wars before this one, but now that I think about it...what makes me think the other wars before this one like World War One or to use an American war....The American Civil War was any nicer? Yes, of course, during World War One and the American Civil War, there wasn't a mass slaughter of an entire race of people, but still, people did horrible things to each other. However, they weren't as well documented as World War Two was.

I mean, a few minutes researching prison camps in the Civil War will no doubt bring up horror stories of Americans treaing fellow Americans with unbelievable cruelty. That is, because we as a whole human race kinda suck at the group thing, to be honest. We're so headstrong on accomplishing goals that we'll just charge through almost without thinking. Luckily, for the most part, it's for a good cause, but, sadly, there are times when the cause isn't good at all.

To quote a good friend of mine: "When humans get the tools, they'll start figuring out ways to kill each other with them."